Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Tom O'Mahony, Ms Moyagh Murdock and their colleagues for appearing before the committee. I will commence with the Road Safety Authority. In respect of the increase in the number of road deaths recorded, which we very much regret, what is the reason for the turnaround? How can we get back to the continuing decline that was experienced from 1972 to 2012? I pay tribute to the work done because according to Mr. O'Brien's figures there were 604 road deaths in 1972 which went down to 162 in 2012. That was a huge achievement over those years but I do not want to see that figure increasing.